For Sale: 1976 Apple 1, still runs, no keyboard, no monitor,
no cabinet. Price: $180,000 or best offer.
Sotheby’s is auctioning the classic relic, hand-made by
Steve Jobs and his tech partner, Steve Wozniak, the NY Post reports.. It was their first-ever
commercial order for the computer that allowed users for the first time to use
a keyboard to type letters on a screen.
The device was a sensation among hobbyists until retailer
Peter Terrell ordered 50 to sell in his speciality chain, Byte Shop. He paid
$500 apiece for the units, and the two lads cranked them out in just 30 days.
Basically a stripped-down 9-inch-by-15-inch motherboard, the
computer sold for $666.66, with four manuals but no cabinet, monitor or
keyboard, said Sotheby’s. Of the 50
models made for the shop, just six still work — and the unit going under the
hammer is one of the six.
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